Duff-Man says.....I am not sure I undertand exactly what you mean by "default" but perhaps what you are looking for is in Mails preferences, in the composing section...there is a choice in there to "send new mail from:" with a dropdown box of choices......is that what you mean?.....oh yeah!

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